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January 25 in Type Design Technique & Theory

Does it make sense to add elements from the "Half-Width and Full-Width Shapes" block (FF00-FFEF) to a font that doesn’t contain Asian characters (Chinese, Japanese, or Korean)? When might these characters be useful?

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John Hudson Posts: 3,588

January 25 Answer ✓

Those characters are specific to East Asian typography, so without CJK support they’re not useful. The ‘width’ referred to is CJK character wi…

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